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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 20

The Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University!
@ncstatechem.bsky.social

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 16

Wow, you have a lot of students!!!

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 15

Cookie goals!!!

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 12

"Quantitative conversion"!

Deborah Gater @dgater1.bsky.social · Dec 12

What are your happy words or phrases, #ChemSky?

Today, mine is “minor revisions” ☺️

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 11

Your “Structure of an R01” was the best grant writing guide I had as a new (and unconnected) Assistant Professor. I have used it in classes I teach and shared it with many Jr colleagues. Thank you for demystifying the system for many of us and helping to make the process more accessible to all.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 10

This speaks to me! 😂

J. Hammer-Slay PhD 🎃🧛‍♂️🧟‍♂️🧌👻 @jhammersley.bsky.social · Dec 10

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 4

Congratulations Ken!!!!

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 4

Thank you so much Riccardo!

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you so much Dori!!! 🥰

Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Finally, we show why most work with Seahorse should be done at low concentrations and early time points. Meaning, working below the cytotoxicity IC50 values, and after only short incubations (1-2 hrs). Otherwise, you get misleading data.
We suggest best practices for researchers to avoid pitfalls.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Glycolysis increases the acidity of the tumor microenvironment (TME), and this is generally believed to be immunosuppressive. Thus, PDT may reduce the immunosuppressive TME, encouraging combination of PDT with immunotherapies.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

This could provide a strong rationale for PDT fractionation, as PDT requires O2, and there will be MORE O2 available when OXPHOS is inhibited. It might be possible to get more treatment bang for the photon buck with fractionated PDT treatments.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

This is great news is you want to use photocages and not alter metabolic processes!
And it has real implications for PDT:
PDT induced metabolic reprograming, with OXPHOS and glycolysis shut down by the PDT photosensitizes. This indicates that PDT and might synergize with metabolic disruptors.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Many groups are using the Seahorse Metabolic Analysis to study compounds. We investigated the impact of light-activated molecules on oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis. We found that Ru(II) PDT photosensitizes have a significant impact on metabolism. Ru(II) photocages do not.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Congrats to @richardmitchell210.bsky.social for an excellent study leveraging metabolic analysis! This paper shows how photodynamic therapy photosensitizers and photoactivated chemotherapeutics exhibit distinct bioenergetic profiles - now in Chemical Science (a 🧵) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Photodynamic therapy photosensitizers and photoactivated chemotherapeutics exhibit distinct bioenergetic profiles to impact ATP metabolism

Energy is essential for all life, and mammalian cells generate and store energy in the form of ATP by mitochondrial (oxidative phosphorylation) and non-mitochondrial (glycolysis) metabolism. These pro...

pubs.rsc.org

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 21

These include working below the cytotoxicity IC50 values, and after only short incubations (1-2 hrs). Otherwise, what is observed may be a downstream effect of other biological processes.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 21

What are the implications?
PDT may be effective for metabolic reprograming and might synergize with metabolic disruptors. This could also have implications for combination PDT with immunotherapies.
PACT agents can be used as photocages without disrupting metabolism.
We also suggest best practices.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 21

We found two thing:
1) PDT agents shut down both OXPHOS and glycolysis, and induce senescence. PACT agents do not.
2) It is essential to do time and concentration dependent studies, and most work should be done at low concentrations and early time points. Otherwise, you get misleading data.

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sharing some info on our latest paper coming out soon in Chemical Science. 🧵
Many groups are using the Seahorse Metabolic Analysis to study compounds. We investigated the impact of light-activated molecules on oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis by comparing PDT agents and photocages (PACT).

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 18

Love this!!!

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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Nov 17

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

www.fiercebiotech.com

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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 17

Yay, thank you Catherine, this is great!!!
Now we just need to get more of the community to migrate over here!

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Phoebe Glazer @glazerchemistrylab.bsky.social · Nov 17

Twitter used to be fun, X got to be not so fun, I am hoping Bluesky will provide a good medium for scientific community!

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